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Who Saved Basecamp Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars? · Rework

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Spending in the Clouds

Basecamp has cut back its reliance on Amazon and Google, but there's one area where it's tough to find alternatives to Big Tech: cloud services. Even so, there are ways to cut spending on this $3 million annual expense while keeping the company's apps running smoothly. In this episode, Blake Stoddard on Basecamp's Ops team talks about how he volunteered to…

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  1. Who Saved Basecamp Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars? at 1:30

    Blake Stoddard , from Basecamp Ops team, was curious to see if he would be able to save company money by optimizing their cloud spent. Full answer

  2. How Did Basecamp End Up on the Cloud at 2:25

    They used to run their own data centres, and still do for the older products. Full answer

  3. What Are the Downsides of Hosting a Website on the Cloud at 3:25

    Modern websites might not cost a lot to host on the cloud until they explode in popularity, when services that used to be cheap end up consuming a ton, and… Full answer

  4. What Are the Steps in Tackling Cloud Cost Optimization at 6:53

    Basecamp team started by looking at the legacy apps and comparing real traffic to their forecasts. Full answer

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